GOP furious about timing of Rumsfeld resignation. Huh? You think?!
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How could I not link this? 
Bill Whittle at Eject! Eject! Eject! obliterates some some popular memes. It’s a long, but worthwhile, read. A sample:
George W. Bush is not stupid. It’s not possible to be a moron and fly a supersonic jet fighter, and everyone knows it.
What George W. Bush is, however, is inarticulate. English is his second language. From what I can see he does not have a first language.
Bill attacks the following issues:
- Chickenhawks
- War of the bumperstickers
- Somewhere in Texas, a Village is missing its Idiot
- No Blood for Oil!
- Coexist!
- End U.S. Imperialism Now!
- You Can not Simultaneously Prevent and Prepare for War — Albert Einstein
- Give Peace a Chance
- War is not the Answer
- Bush Lied, People Died
- You cannot just count the hits and not record the misses
- Support the Troops – Bring Them Home Now!
Bill promises a second installment. I just added Eject! Eject! Eject! to my RSS reader so I won’t miss it.
Look, this was a close election. If you look at race by race, it was close. The cumulative effect, however, was not too close. It was a thumping. —George W. Bush
[tags]President Bush, W, election[/tags]
Why couldn’t this have happened before yesterday?
This morning’s edition of The Oregonian summarizes the congressional election results with the chart shown above. Although the Senate looks close, the House looks like a blowout for the Democrats until you realize that all the Undecided races are placed on the bottom right, pushing the dividing line between Republicans and Democrats to the left.
If the 24 Undecided races had been placed between the Republican and Democrat sectors, like the Independent races were for the Senate results, the charts would not be misleading. In fact, if this had been done for the Senate results, you might be able to see that the Republicans have more seats than the Democrats, not less like it appears in the chart.
Yes, I know the Democrats won the House, but let’s not overstate the results with misleading charts.
The election is over; how did my measures do?
| Measure | Description | blogan Recommends | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | Prohibit condemnation to transfer to private parties | Yes | Passed |
| 40 | Create districts for appellate and supreme court judges | No | Failed |
| 41 | Make Oregon tax deduction equals Federal exemption | Yes | Failed |
| 42 | Prohibit credit scoring in setting insurance rates or premiums | No | Failed |
| 43 | Require parental notification for minors, with exceptions | Yes | Failed |
| 44 | Expand prescription drug coverage | Yes | Failed |
| 45 | Term limits | No | Failed |
| 46 | Amend constitution to allow limits on campaign donations and expenditures | No | Failed |
| 47 | Limit campaign donations and independent expenditures | No | Passed |
| 48 | Limit budget growth to population and inflation increases | No | Failed |
Note, these results are according to The Oregonian, November 8, 2006, Sunrise Edition.
It will be interesting to watch the court battles surrounding Measure 47. My limited understanding of Oregon constitutional law is that Oregon’s freedom of speech is one of the most protected in the nation. I don’t believe that Measure 47 is constitutional without the enabling amendment included in Measure 46, which failed. We shall see.
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